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PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE                  

           220648          12:25:04 - 12:39:04            1904 ?- 1913 ?       Panama Canal  b/w     Si         The Story of the Panama Canal (2) of (2)
Culebra Cut being excavated with dredges. Giant cranes and cableways moving concrete for building walls of locks. Concrete mixing. Pay day at US military railway carriage. Black man in shirt & tie counting money. tracking shot from moving train, workers alongside tracks. Digging, views of shovels moving large rocks onto railway cars. Water used to cut banks. Explosion. Dredges at work, trains of earth & rocks being unloaded with Lidgerwood unloader. Men shifting track. Railway car  unloading rocks  for construction of West Breakwater .
Final opening of dike between Pacific and Atlantic with dynamite. Workers setting and moving dynamite and opening last cut. Gatun Locks filling for first time, Miraflores Locks opened first time, first boats through. Military ships through canal and freighter seen. Calvin Coolidge speaking.
Needs permission from Theodore Roosevelt Assoc. P.O. Box 719, Oyster Bat, NY 11771 email: tra@sprynet.com

 

         220896     17:03:26 - 17:13:30      1910s - 1920s                      b/w     Si        
Stock newsreel exerpts
Ramsey MacDonald w/ Herriot.  Stanley Baldwin, w/ movie cameraman, giving speech, crowd.  Poincaré visits liberated Marshall Foch.  French Troops marching beneath cherry blossoms.  1920, Deschanel – Poincaré becomes Premier, troops riding, parade, coaches, crowds.  Calvin Coolidge & Warren Harding & wives, Gerard.  CU of loudspeakers, Coolidge acceptance at 1924 Republican convention, posing w/ wife & politicians.  Ext. 1924 Democratic convention w/ John W. Davis riding w/ ?? in car and accepting nomination on porch; walking in garden, playing golf & with grandchild.  1924 convention w/ placards.  17:13:18 William Jennings Bryan standing next to his brother.

 

         220686    02:47:52 - 02:58:18   1920   Marion, Ohio. Northampton, Massachusetts. Plymouth, Vermont.    b/w     Si         President Harding and Calvin Coolidge [1]
CU & MCU Darren Gamaliel Harding, leader of Republican Party. Posing with wife Mrs Warren G. Harding of Marion, Ohio. Harding w/ Governor Coolidge & Will Hays out of car.
Harding returns to Marion, Ohio after nomination, in street w crowd waving banners, Harding on porch w/ wife. People in crowd wave  handkerchief. Parade w/ coloured umbrellas. Crowd applauding in sun, Harding waves from porch w/ other man. CU old men of Marion. Harding makes speech on porch, then shaking hands with people. CU Harding’s father & getting into horse carriage, driving off. Crowd inside Convention hall.
Will H. Hays, Chairman of the National Committee speaks under US flags.  Governor Edward P. Morrow, chief executive of Kentucky speaking. Coolidge speech on his nomination as vice-president in Northampton, Massachusetts, crowd waving US flags.
Calvin Coolidge in his home of Plymouth, Vermont: Outside farm house , with father in field, w/ wife and children in school room, standing with cow. Scything hay with son, chopping wood. Talking w/ Hays and Harding.

 

         221241     16:29:39 - 16:45:44 1920s;            Washington, DC           B/W    SIL       A Day With The President Of The United States And His Cabinet
Capitol building, White House from rose garden.  Calvin Coolidge at desk signing papers; at desk in Executive Office w/ male secretary (?); talking w/ newspaper correspondent. (intertitles Republican beliefs).
Ext. of State Department Building.  Sec. of State Charles E. Hughes in MCU at desk.
16:33:31  Ext. of Treasury Building.  Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon & under-secretary Garrard B. Winston talking at desk.  MS signing papers. 
16:34:46  Department of Labor exterior  & int. w/ Sec. James J. Davis & his female secretary.  He signs papers.  Talks.
16:36:30  Ext. of Post Office building.  Postmaster General Harry S. New & First Asst. Postmaster General John H. Bartlett talking.  Female secretary sitting at desk also.
16:37:48  Department of Commerce building.  Sec. Herbert Hoover & male secretary at desk. 
16:39:13  Department of Interior w/ cars parked on street & traffic past.  Sec. Dr. Hubert Work at desk.  Ext. of Department of Agriculture & Sec. Henry C. Wallace.  Dept. of Justice building & Attorney General Stone w/ his assistant, Warren F. Martin.
16:42:53  Sec. of War Weeks w/ secretary & at desk signing papers. 
16:44:05  Department of Navy exterior; Sec. of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur & Adm Edward W. Eberle
Government Leadership; Bureucracy; Executive Branch; 1920s; Republicans;

            220525          21:20:30 - 21:21:23            1923 - 1929             b/w     Si         President’s Family Enjoys Christmas Aboard Mayflower
Nitrate decomposition at head. Calvin Coolidge and family board yacht. President Coolidge with Captain Andrews and Governor Clements of Vermont.
John Coolidge, son of President standing in group
Mostly unusable


            221137          19:00:00 - 19:01:51            1925               B/W    SIL       [Total Eclipse of the Sun, 24Jan25]
People preparing equipment; silhouetted.  Large wooden tube to focus light, tilt up to sun ecliped.  People in streets watching eclipse w dark glasses & filters.  Policeman blows whistle & puts up hands to stop traffic.19:00:54  Dirigible overhead.  Overhead shot of man cranking camera; eclipse; camera being cranked.   People sit on snow & stand, watch thru cards w/ filters.  William Jennings Bryan (?) in Washington DC watching.  NYC Central Park & people watching.  Sun eclipsed.  President Calvin Coolidge & wife looking at eclipse thru large sheets of glass.
Astronomy; Public Imagination; Solar System; 1920s;

            221137          19:01:52 - 19:05:10            1925   Washington, DC           B/W    SIL       [Calvin Coolidge Inauguration, 04Mar25]
Home of Calvin Coolidge w/in iris, dissolve to White House.  President-elect Coolidge standing in semi CU w/ Charles G. Dawes.  US flag w/ Capitol & inaugural parade.
19:02:30  Coolidge and wife leaving for inauguration w/ Senator Curtis.  Motorcade out of White House gates thru cluster of photographers & down Pennsylvania Avenue  w/ mounted escort.  Open top car carrying Coolidge arrives at Capitol & Coolidge acknowledges crowd & party up steps & enters building.
19:04:25  Coolidge taking oath on balcony behind microphones.
19:04:37  Military marching band & parade & motorcade up Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

            220874          06:17:59 - 06:30:41            1928   Detroit, Mich - NYC - West Orange, NJ - Ann Arbor, Mich - New Haven, Conn -  River Nile - Black Hills, SD - Old Orchard, ME      B/W    SIL       [Pathe News 1928]
INCLUDING:
06:25:32  COOLIDGE RIDES HORSE TO BIGGEST MONUMENT. In Black Hills, South Dakota, Pres. Calvin Coolidge follows trail to national monument site at Mount Rushmore. Shows site and sculptor Gutzon Borglum.
06:27:08 

 

            220454          00:29:51 - 00:45:59            1928 1929    Washington     b/w     Si         President Herbert Hoover
Inauguration

INCDLUDING:
00:43:23: 24Jul29 - Kellogg-Briand Pact for the Renunciation of War. Hoover into East Room with aides greets nations’ representatives: Calvin Coolidge, Sen. Borah of Idaho, Chairman of the Foreign relations Committee; Sec. of State Stimson and former Sec. Kellogg & French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand; British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard. Representatives of original signatory countries & others involved shake hands with Hoover. Hoover reads Peace Covenant.

 

            220751          14:00:04 - 14:01:28            1930   Box Canyon Arizona    B/W    SIL       Coolidge Dedicates Great Dam Named in his Honor
Pan across dam.  Calvin Coolidge at microphone.  Crowds walking across dam.  Trestle tables, people eating sandwiches.  President seated at table eating.  President smoking peace pipe with native American Indian.

 

            220374          03:35:36 - 03:48:48            1927            

INCLUDING:
03:40:07  Pioneers of Flight - Ira C. Eaker.  02May27 Calvin Coolidge at Bolling Field  greeting return of Pan-American flyers thru South America after 20500 miles “Goodwill Flight” from San Antonio.  Loening OA-1A planes.  Captain Ira Eaker was one of the pilots.
03:40:58 

 

 

 

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11.20.20        28Sep29         Si.  Coolidge and Florence Trumbull wedding, honeymoon, apartment.|

08.22.30        11Jun30         Si.  (next tape 08.27.20)  Coolidge purchases Northampton, MA mansion.|

11.21.20        06Oct30          Si.   Coolidge, Gouraud, and Pershing   present as Hoover opens American Legion convention.|

11.24.10        23Feb31         Si   Newport News, Virginia, Liner President Coolidge launched by wife.|

02.05.30        18Jun31         Si.  Pres Hoover & Ex-Pres. Coolidge dedicate Harding Memorial; Coolidge at Lincoln's grave.|

05.59.20        05Jan33         Si.  Coolidge dead.|

06.08.50        09Jan33         Si.  Coolidge funeral.

 

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